Many observers suspect economic growth to be inextricably associated with inequality: growth alone need not bring about unalloyed, uncontroversial increases in economic well-being because rising average income levels might come together with increasing disparities between rich and poor....

Through a longitudinal analysis of Bangalore’s development over two centuries leading to its present status as Asia’s largest ICT cluster, it is observed that cluster-development is primarily a function of the entrepreneurial activities of people rather than a of an ‘ecosystem’ created...